Events

Events

« May 12, 2008 - June 11, 2008 »

05 / 12 Law Week Start: 00:00 Start: 12 May 2008 - 00:00 End: 18 May 2008 - 23:59 Program of events available at www.victorialaw.org.au more info
05 / 13 Law Week (all day) Start: 12 May 2008 - 00:00 End: 18 May 2008 - 23:59 Program of events available at www.victorialaw.org.au more info
05 / 14 Law Week (all day) Start: 12 May 2008 - 00:00 End: 18 May 2008 - 23:59 Program of events available at www.victorialaw.org.au more info
05 / 15 Law Week (all day) Start: 12 May 2008 - 00:00 End: 18 May 2008 - 23:59 Program of events available at www.victorialaw.org.au more info Palestinian Candlelight vigil Start: 16:30 End: 19:30 Remembering 60 years of Dispossession & displacement in Palestine. State Library cnr Latrobe and Swanston Sts, City. more info Benefit for Friends of the Earth Barmah-Millewa Campaign. Start: 20:30 End: 23:59 Help save the world’s largest river red gum forest from logging and achieve land justice for the Yorta Yorta people. With Milk and Lou Bennett & Sweetcheeks. 8.30pm on. $6/$10. Edinburgh Castle, cnr Sydney Rd & Albion St, Brunswick. Info barmah@foe.org.au. more info
05 / 16 Law Week (all day) Start: 12 May 2008 - 00:00 End: 18 May 2008 - 23:59 Program of events available at www.victorialaw.org.au more info GLW Annual Comedy Debate Start: 19:00 End: 23:00 The Green Left Weekly Annual Comedy Debate is on again! Join comedians Rod Quantock, Nelly Thomas, Courteney Hocking, Wendy Little, Catherine Deveny & Shiralee Hood to debate 'Should we always look on the bright side of life?' Friday 16 May at 7pm, at the Brunswick Town Hall, corner Sydney and Glenlyon Roads Brunswick. Tickets are $10/$20/$30 solidarity. For ticket bookings please ring 9639 8622. Seats are limited. Food and drinks will be available for purchase (it is a licenced event) For more event details go to the www.greenleft.org.au website more info
05 / 17 Law Week (all day) Start: 12 May 2008 - 00:00 End: 18 May 2008 - 23:59 Program of events available at www.victorialaw.org.au more info Free Mumia Now Rally Start: 15:30 End: 17:30 Free Mumia Now Rally -Abolish the Racist Death Penalty Speakers> Canopy-san, Coordinator of Leonard Peltier Support Group Melbourne Len Cooper, Secretary of Communications, CEPU Union Melbourne David Cushion, Assistant Secretary, Maritime Union of Australia, Victorian Branch Dave Kerin, Coordinator Union Solidarity Peter Murray, Freedom Socialist Party Sat 17 May 3.30pm Meeting room 1 Trades Hall cnr Vic and Lygon Sts Carlton Organised by the Partisan Defence Committee Representative and Sparticist League of Australia Representative. For more info about the campaign go the Partisan Defence Committee website. more info
05 / 18 Law Week End: 23:59 Start: 12 May 2008 - 00:00 End: 18 May 2008 - 23:59 Program of events available at www.victorialaw.org.au more info
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05 / 20 Call Out for Artists - Art Auction for the Earth Start: 13:00 Friends of the Earth Melbourne's Anti-nuclear and Clean Energy campaign are calling for donations of original artworks across all media to until May 20th. The artwork will be part of an exhibition Greenhouse or Green House? and will then be auctioned to raise funds to support our campaign. This year we have a special category in which we have materials that are available to artists. We have 10 inch (25cm) square canvas or 'memory box' to create an artwork on the theme of *Greenhouse or Green House?* We will be holding an Art Auction called at Synergy Gallery, 253 High St Northcote on 12 June at 7pm. Exhibition opens for viewing from Tuesday June 3rd @ Synergy Gallery, 253 High St. Northcote. Open Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7pm. For more information please contact Michaela 03 9419 8700 or Ila 0427 501 944 / ila@melbpc.org.au. more info
05 / 21 Judy Wicks - Local Living Economies Start: 18:00 End: 20:30 Judy Wicks, the owner and founder of Philadelphia’s 24-year-old White Dog Cafe, a national leader in the local, living economies movement, co-founder and co-chair of the national Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), is coming to Australia to raise more info
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05 / 23 Voices from Bangladesh: Public meeting Start: 18:30 End: 22:00 Speaker: Anu Muhammad. Professor Muhammad works in the Department of Economics at Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka and has played a leading role in the civil society campaign against the Phulbari mine. Friday, 23 May 6.30pm. Northcote High School, St Georges Rd, Northcote. For more information email cam.walker@foe.org.au. more info Short Attention Span Film Festival Start: 19:00 End: 22:00 A collection of shorts from indie film makers and activists. A benefit for SUWA (Squatters and Unwaged Airwaves radio program on 3CR). 7pm. Loophole Community Centre, 834A High St, Thornbury. Info crustofcrust@gmail.com. more info
05 / 24 The long walk for reconciliation. Start: 14:30 End: 17:00 Saturday, May 24 - 2.30pm. Assemble Federation Square then march to MCG. more info Eritrean national day dinner. Start: 18:00 End: 23:59 Music, Eritrean dancing, supper. Proceeds to support the work of Caritas Internationalis. 6pm. Cardinal Knox Centre, 383 Albert St, East Melbourne. Entry: $20 per person. RSVP DrLuigi.Soccio@immi.gov.au. more info
05 / 25 Day of protest against the tunnel & Travancore development Start: 13:00 End: 15:00 Say no to John Brumby and the big end of town's urban nightmare and PPPs! Oppose more loss of public parklands! Demand real solutions to our traffic and public transport problems! Real action on global warming! Sunday, 25 May 1 pm. Debney Park, Mt Alexander Rd, Flemington. Rod Quantock to compere. For more info ph Gab Pretto 9376 3060. more info
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05 / 28 Forum: Afghanistan — troops out now! Start: 15:30 End: 16:30 1.30pm. Library Group Study Room P219, Victoria University, Footscray Park Campus. An update on the current situation in Afghanistan by VUT post-graduate student Natalie Zirngast. Organised by Socialist Alliance & Resistance. For more info ph 0406 402 401. more info
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06 / 2 Reconciliation Poetry Night Start: 20:00 End: 23:00 La Mama Poetica launches the Heart to Heart 2008 CD at the Reconciliation Poetry Evening. Taking place during Reconciliation Week the La Mama Poetica event is a meeting place for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Poets. Poets include Johnny Harding, Lauren Williams, Grant Caldwell and Jeltje. Hosted by Jennifer Harrison. La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday St, Carlton Monday, June 2, 8pm $7/5 The CD is a tribute to Indigenous poet Lisa Bellear who sadly passed away in 2007. This limited edition CD is by donation. more info
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06 / 4 Elgin Street walk-up Big Photo Party Start: 16:30 End: 19:00 Join 3CR at The Big Photo Party at the Elgin Street walk-ups in Carlton on June 4! All tenants living in and relocated from the Carlton Estates have been invited to come and be part of a mass group photograph to show that many tenants live on this Estate and that public housing is important to Carlton. Join tenants such as Dietrich and Maurice (left) and... · See six amazing interactive vehicles with radio, video, live music, kids games · Have your say at 3CR’s mini broadcast about what housing and home means to you. · Children can play the Big Game with Polyglot Puppet Theatre · There will also be free Sorghum Sisters food, Ethiopian coffee and a halal BBQ. Wednesday 4 June 2008 4.30–7pm (photo at 5.30pm) in the Elgin St walk-ups courtyard off Canning & Palmerston Streets more info
06 / 5 Book launch: Cuban Revolution Start: 18:30 End: 20:00 Cuba: How the workers & peasants made the revolution Speakers: Kevin Bracken (state secretary, Maritime Union of Australia), Joan Coxsedge (president, Australia Cuba Friendship Society), Chris Slee (author) Thursday, June 5, 6.30pm Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City. Launch of new Resistance Books pamphlet on the Cuban Revolution. (56pp, $6. Available from Resistance Centre or online at Resistance Books.) Organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective (an affiliate of Socialist Alliance). For more info ph 9639 8622. more info
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06 / 7 Rally: No to Homophobia! Start: 13:00 End: 14:30 Overturn the ban on same-sex marriage! Allow gays and lesbians to adopt! Allow IVF for lesbians! Saturday 7 June, 1pm. Cnr Bourke & Swanston Sts, City. For more information call James 0412 906 978. more info
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06 / 9 Dangerous and Persuasive Women Start: 14:00 DANGEROUS AND PERSUASIVE WOMEN: DOING POLITICS DIFFERENTLY – AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ‘HISTORY OF SUCCESS’, CENTENARY OF SUFFRAGE IN VICTORIA 1908 - 2008 WHERE: BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square WHEN: Monday 16 June 2008 TIME: 6.30pm for 7.00pm START TICKETS: FREE BOOKINGS: (03) 9642 0422, or email. more info 3CR Middle Eastern & North African Music Benefit Start: 16:00 End: 23:59 3CR's Morrocan program stages it's Radiothon 2008 Benefit. Come and listen to Middle Eastern & North African music. Performers include La Kasbah, Pin Rada Ensemble, Ali Coban & Evie Phil Gunter as well as Andrea Makris from Underbelly Dance. Food by Half Moon Cafe. Monday 9 June (Queen's Birthday) 60 High St, Sth Preston $12/15 More information after at www.carni.com.au more info
06 / 10 Opening: Australian Ethiopian artists exhibition Start: 17:00 End: 19:00 Australian Ethiopian artists exhibition Opening: Tuesday June 10 @ 5.00pm 45 Downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne EMERGE - The Journey: From Ancient Ethiopia to Contemporary Melbourne An exhibition by Befekir Kebede, Sutueal Bekele & Tamirat Gebremariam Exhibition runs: June 10th - June 21st Open hours: Tues - Fri 11am – 5pm & Sat 12pm - 4pm @ 45 Downstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne more info: eo@multiculturalarts.com.au or www.multiculturalarts.com.au more info
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